Harriet Walter 'remarkable' in all-female Julius Caesar

What you need to know
Director Phyllida Lloyd's production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, featuring an all-female cast, has opened at the Donmar Warehouse. Lloyd is best known for her films The Iron Lady and Mama Mia.

The production sets the action in a women's prison, with the female inmates staging a production of Shakespeare's tale of the political assassination of Roman emperor Julius Caesar.

Witty, liberating and inventive, says Michael Billington in The Guardian. It proves that female actors can bring a fresh perspective to traditionally male roles. The acting all round is strong but "the shining example is Harriet Walter" who gives us a remarkable Brutus.

What they don't like
This is a production that is resolutely determined to be as edgy and uncomfortable as possible, says Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph. "Having given so much uncomplicated pleasure with her production of /Mamma Mia!/ Lloyd now appears hell-bent on making the audience suffer for their art."